Its been a busy week. School has been hectic... Lots of studying and homework, not to mention doing research for my thesis. (Undergrads are expected to write thesis here in Japan)
Last semester, I wrote a little bit about my ideas for it, but after a few revisions and one class later, it seems that the topic was a little too broad...
It wasn't all for loss... My new topic is almost the same thing just alot more focused.
I'm going to try and sum it up in a nutshell...
Japan was and still is a leader in social networking. Although it came after the early services like Geocities, Mixi was around almost 5 year before Facebook was released...
It allowed UCC (User Created Content) to be posted easily from any Mobile Phone... Bring in the rise of the Camera Phone.
Do you own a Mixi account? If your between the ages 10- 35 and Japanese the chances are you do.... Mixi is strictly Japanese.
Anyways... Today, Facebook, Myspace and Twitter have seen a huge increase of users from Asian, more recently Japan (5 years)
As these social networking sites continue to grow, the gap between social groups has both grown closer together and further apart.
My thesis is focused on researching how younger (ages 15-30) Japanese adolescences cultural values will change over the next ( x amount of time)
Anyways... Gotta go to class!
More later
Tom
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